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I been reading posts here that due to stress plants will produce seeds but they will be hermies. I also have read this...
Plant reproductive biologists of KeyGene identified a DNA region from dandelion that is essential for apomixis, the process that enables plants to clonally form seeds without fertilization. This breakthrough in apomixes research was reported in a paper in the Special Issue of the journal Genes on the 'Molecular Basis of Apomixis in Plants'.
Introducing apomixis into a broad range of commercial crops will radically change plant breeding and seed production. Crops that possess apomixis can form seeds without fertilization. Seeds from such plants have exactly the same genetic make-up as the mother plant that produces them. This allows the easy propagation of high yielding hybrid varieties that are critical to feeding a rapidly growing world population
so in plants without individual sexes and have both pistals and stamens , I assume they would be kind of like hermies naturally..... if the seeds is basically a exact clone of the mother in terms of genetics and for those types of plants being hermie wouldn't be an issue like it is for us. does this make sense or am I over thinking this...thx
Apoximis: easy propagation of high yielding hybrids
Plant reproductive biologists of KeyGene identified a DNA region from dandelion that is essential for apomixis, the process that enables plants to clonally form seeds without fertilization. This breakthrough in apomixes research was reported in a paper in the Special Issue of the journal Genes on the 'Molecular Basis of Apomixis in Plants'.
Introducing apomixis into a broad range of commercial crops will radically change plant breeding and seed production. Crops that possess apomixis can form seeds without fertilization. Seeds from such plants have exactly the same genetic make-up as the mother plant that produces them. This allows the easy propagation of high yielding hybrid varieties that are critical to feeding a rapidly growing world population
so in plants without individual sexes and have both pistals and stamens , I assume they would be kind of like hermies naturally..... if the seeds is basically a exact clone of the mother in terms of genetics and for those types of plants being hermie wouldn't be an issue like it is for us. does this make sense or am I over thinking this...thx